Succotash Shut-In

Succotash Clips Epi153: Clippin' n' Snippin'

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

Yes, it’s me. Marc Hershon. Your
host and corporeal being for Epi153 of Succotash, the
Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. And this is another installment of
Succotash Clips, where we feature clips of comedy
soundcasts from all over the place.

As far as this epi goes, we’ve got
clips coming up in this installment from Chillpak Hollywood
Hour, Crazytown, The David Feldman Show,
Harmontown, The Jackie & Laurie Show,
Nerd Poker, Nerds with Words, PTO
Unlimited, and Studio 60 Sessions. In addition,
we also have a double dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment,
featuring political comedian and social commentator Will Durst. And this episode is
brought to you by Henderson’s Pants CoverALLs.

Big thanks our Associate Producer
Tyson Saner for harvesting half of the shows
you’re going to hear on this episode – he does a great job finding
new shows for this show and he also has his own soundcast, The Anti Social
Show, along with Hunter Block, who is
also a friend of this show. They just got their show up on iTunes
so check ‘em out there, or on SoundCloud.

Speaking of iTunes, if
you’d like to be a friend of this show as well and have
not yet rated and reviewed Succotash on iTunes, please do
so. It doesn’t cost you a cent and it really helps our visibility
in Soundcastland.

For that matter if you listen to
us on the Laughable app, or Stitcher, or SoundCloud, it would be great if you’d rate us using
whatever system they’ve got going on. Same goes for YouTube and
iHeart Radio, two more fab spots to hear our spew.

WELCOME US TO PATREON

I just popped the top on our new
Succotash Patreon account. That’s right, we're now
part of the Patreon soundcast life support system. I’m not quite
sure what I’m doing with it yet, so I think the only option
currently available is for you to kick us $1 a month, for which we
will thank you every show in our Calvalcade of Gratitude. And I
also think there’s a thing that’s live that if we get 250 followers
on Patreon, I will commit to churing out an episode each and every
week on a regular release day. So check out that page at https://www.patreon.com/succotash

THE CLIPS

The David Feldman
ShowA
soundcast that’s been around for a while in various forms is
The David Feldman Show. David is a former
standup comedian who I’ve known since he first got on stage in the
San Francisco area. He took off years ago, heading for LA and then
New York, where he’s been a writer on a bunch of TV shows. He’s
been a guest on Succotash before – back in Epi108 – and I tickled
that he asked me to be on his show just a couple of weeks
ago.

Chillpak Hollywood
HourNormally
for our friends in soundcasting, Dean Haglund and
Phil Leirness, of Chillpak Hollywood Hour
fame, I reserve playing clips unless they’re mentioning me because
I’m just that self-absorbed. But a couple of weeks back the boys
were on the road across the great US of A – Dean was even in the
country from Australia where he’s been living the past couple of
years – and they were at a Famous Monsters convention in
Dallas, Texas. And they were not alone but, instead, sat down with
Bruce Harwood and Tom Braidwood,
the two actors who had co-starred with Dean as the trio known as
The Lone Gunmen, first on The X-Files TV show and then for
a season in their spin-off, The Lone Gunmen.

HarmontownOne of Tyson Saner’s picks for this episode is
from a soundcast that we’ve featured before but it’s always a
delight to drop in and see what latest bits of outrageousness are
going on over in Dan Harmon'sHarmontown.
In this case, the clip we have is from back in March, when
Harmontown had been annexed to Austin, Texas, as part of
South By Southwest. Harmon was on hand along with Jeff
Davis and Spencer Crittendon.

Nerd PokerAt the end of April this
year, a version of the defunct Nerd Poker with Brian Posehn
& Friends soundcast snuck back into Soundcastland. Now
called Brian Posehn’s Nerd Poker, it’s not network
affiliated any more and so rather than being recorded in the
Earwolf Studios, the action happens in Brian
Posehn’s home in LA. The DM is Dan Telfer
and, in addition to Brian, the players include Brian,
Blaine Capatch, and Ken Daly, all
of whom were in the original crew. We feature a slice from a recent
episode where the characters are fighting something that might just
be a werewolf.

Crazy TownIt may be called Crazy Town, but the
host, Jonaas, takes pains on the homesite to make
sure no one’s offended by things that happen on the show – here’s
part of his disclaimer: “Let me be serious with everyone for a
second. This podcast is all about having fun and being goofy and
poking fun at things. Nothing should be taken super serious, and
the hosts and anyone else involved in this podcast are great people
who have no prejudices of any sort, in any way, shape or form. This
podcast is a work of fiction, please keep that in mind even though
real life events and stories are discussed. If anyone is offended
or feels that they have been wronged, let us please apologize up
front as that is not our intent in any way, shape or
form.” Make you really curious what you’re about to hear
though, right?

The Jackie & Laurie ShowWe get
a glimpse into the glamorous show biz lives of Jackie
Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin. Jackie has
had her Soundcast, The Dork Forest, for years now, but she
and Laurie teamed up last year to put out The Jackie &
Laurie Show, which is usually the two hosts talking about
performing in comedy as woman, the state of comedy today, and
reminiscing about various hell gigs over the years. But Laurie was
a recent guest on Conan and so, in an episode entitled
Show Yourself Out, she and Jackie headed backstage just
before that appearance to do their show from there. (Producer's
Note: Our host f'd up royally in this episode and called the show
"Show Yourself Out". The dork has even reviewed Jackie and Laurie's
soundcast before so I…er…he should have known
better…)

Nerds With
WordsTyson
snipped us off a hunk of a soundcast called Nerds with
Words, featuring AdamNutter
and Greg Trout. It’s not to be mistaken with, or
for, Nerdz with Wordz where the esses in "nerds" and
"words" are spelled with a z. Totally different soundcast.
Our clip is from a recent show featuring guest Joe
Messina,a comedian and soundcaster who just shut down his
show Breaking Up with Joe, where he recounted the details
of a painful breakup he had gone through. He has a stage show
called Party Lines and we pick up here mid-discussion
about that show.

PTOUnlimitedAnother “new to us” soundcast is PTO
Unlimited, hosted by Brett,
Josh, and Alyx. The PTO part – I
think – comes from “paid time off” and the Unlimited part is from
the fact they will talk about unlimited topics. Their SoundCloud
page says there are from “Fort Wayne, United States.” I’m guessing
that’s in Indiana, too. Anyway, Tyson flipped us this clip,
where the hosts kick around the movie Ghost Ship from
2002.

The Studio 60
SessionsAn
old friend of Succotash is Travis Clark.
He and his wife, Brandi, had their soundcast,
Tiny Odd Conversations, up and running for quite some
time. I think TOC is offcially in the Soundcast Graveyard now, as
their last episode was posted in March of last year, but Travis
popped up this last week as the first guest on a new soundcast
called The Studio 60 Sessions. Another fine example of
niche programming, this show is devoted to a TV show called
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which was on NBC over a
decade ago. (You can find the series on Amazon and other online
places. It seems Travis had been a fan of the show and he joins
Studio 60 Sessions host Dave Amiott to
chat about the pilot episode of the TV show.

CLOSING REMARKS

If you're a comedy soundcaster
and would like us to feature your show on our show, you can get us
a 3-5 minute MP3 clip (no promos, please!) by uploading it directly
to me via our direct upload link, at
http://hightail.com/u/Succotash. And please tell us a little about
you and the show itself, including the homesite, distribution
points, etc.

Our next epi will likely be an
installment of Succotash Chats, with a surprise guest
who's actually making his fourth appearance on the show!